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DNA from skull links Ice Age girl to Native Americans alive today
- tokenadult 12y agoThis is not at all a surprise although it is good to get more data on such an issue. There is still very limited sampling of DNA from prehistoric individuals,[1] and a frequent popular confusion that ancient human regional populations can be well characterized in their relationships just by phenotype (which in practice means by the shape of their skulls, jaws, and teeth) without any information about genotypes. Even living populations are still astoundingly undersampled (same reference). [1] http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2344219 http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2344219